This is how cartoons started
Richard Outcault is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip
Annually celebrated on May 5, it is National Cartoonists Day. This day honors all cartoonists, past and present, the talented works they have created and the humor they have brought into our lives.
American comic strip writer and artist, Richard Outcault (January 14, 1863 – September 25, 1928) is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip. At 15 years of age, he studied for three years at the McMicken University’s School of Design in Cincinnati. Outcault is the creator of The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown.
It was on Sunday, May 5, 1895, that the readers of the New York World discovered an exciting new addition to their morning paper. Inside was Outcault’s full-color drawings featuring a big eared, barefoot little boy with a mischievous grin. This was the first color installment of the cartoon called “Hogan’s Alley” that would later become known as “The Yellow Kid” and was the first commercially successful cartoon icon.
Outcault was a 2008 Judges’ Choice inductee into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.Use #NationalCartoonistsDay to post on social media.
In 1990, the National Cartoonists Society proclaimed May 5 as National Cartoonists Day.
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